flyinghamster

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by flyinghamster 1y ago
Pixel 7a: slow to start, and you must wait for it to finish shutting down (or crashing) before you try to launch it again. Lord help you if Debian pushes a systemd update, since updating systemd is a reliable crash.
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
> No physical store would bother to check the ID of anyone clearly not {too young or borderline}. Except where police cadets or paid informants go into stores to buy age-restricted goods. A convenience store near me got whacked with that
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
> I cannot understand why the European Commission wants to reduce our reliance on FAANG services, and at the same time they make Google Play a de facto standard, reinforcing the mobile duopoly. It's called bad faith, and it's a
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
I've been playing with it[0] - it still has a few rough edges. It's rather slow to start up compared to firing up a VM in virt-manager, and when you shut it down you must wait for it to finish shutting down before trying to restar
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
My issue is with $URL potentially getting hijacked, or even something like the kerfluffle over the PuTTY SSH client not residing at putty.org.
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
I've avoided Python for a long time, but I'm getting roped in myself, mainly because certain tasks seem to require a lot less code than Java or Perl. That said, call me old-fashioned, but I really take issue with "curl $URL |
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
Since I always answered "Not now" when my phone wanted to replace Google Assistant with Gemini, I still have Google Assistant on my phone. When I try to bring up Gemini settings, it will ask me if I want to replace Google Assistan
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
At the rate things are going, LLMs are going to kill the entire web. I'm starting to think that's by design.
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
Um, why was someone's perfectly reasonable take downvoted to oblivion? Too much of a newcomer? Too many Welch devotees here? As far as I'm concerned, Welch turned GE from an industrial behemoth that more than lived up to its name,
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
All of the purple lights I've seen have been of the same design, and they seem to be in towns that are (at least to some degree) cash-strapped. The manufacturer better be replacing these under warranty. There aren't any of them in
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
Oh great, I get to learn how to use my phone all over again. We need a "leave this the $EXPLETIVE alone" setting for our user interfaces.
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
Unfortunately, data transfer requirements for video are through the roof compared even to audio, let alone text. Self-hosting is great if your audience is in the tens, but if your video goes viral, you'll get slammed with terabytes of
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
I recall icheck, dcheck, and clri, and never had to use fsdb. Also, mknod for populating entries in /dev, creating fifos, etc.
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
If I have more than 8 threads, I'll use the composite CPU chart instead. Also, I have to tell it to ignore veth, vnet, and virbr network interfaces, since I run virt-manager on the box as well.
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by flyinghamster 1y ago
> Fry's Electronics closed here in the west part of Phoenix, several years ago. Their shelves were starting to get bare and were selling things from consignment. It took a while for them to die, and I finally found out why: they wer
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
Bell 202 lives on as well: https://www.windytan.com/2014/02/mystery-signal-from-helicop... In this case, continuous GPS coordinates are sent on one audio channel while the other channel is voice.
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
It is useful for finding out who owns an IP address, but that's about it.
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
In an alternate universe, DEC could have owned personal computing outright and caught IBM flat-footed. But they were deathly afraid of cannibalizing their minicomputer business, so the only home -11s that made it out the door without being
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
Sports drinks. Maybe not 1/4, but 1/3-1/2 is certainly doable. The one in front of me is 150 calories per 28 oz, versus similar levels per 12-oz. serving for typical soft drinks.
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
That's glycol, not glycerol. Ethylene glycol is especially toxic, while propylene glycol may be used as a food additive (E1520, or E490 for pharmaceuticals).
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
Different brands of chips have very different amounts of salt as well. A brand that I like, El Milagro, doesn't actually tout low sodium, yet their chips have less than half the salt (49 mg per 28 g serving) than regular Tostitos (115
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
There was a vector-based cabinet predating Space Invaders: Cinematronics' Space Wars (1977), which used custom hardware to re-implement the original PDP-1 Spacewar! game. It was strictly a two-player game; you couldn't play agains
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
The key is that the general-purpose SDR mode is an originally-undocumented test/debug mode. Different drivers are used to access it; the standard DVB-T drivers don't provide access to it.
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
I've played around with Gnu Radio, and even though I've been able to do some very sophisticated things with GRC, I also realize just how little I really know. Part of that is that the math makes my head spin. I'd be lost with
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
Maybe not German, but certainly French, as in Citroën's ID19, the lower-cost version of the classic DS19. In that case, "ID" is pronounced the same as idée .
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
I see a parallel with the breakup of Yugoslavia as well. In spite of his authoritarianism, Tito was a popular, legitimate war hero, and Yugoslavia had notably more personal freedom than the typical communist regime. But there wasn't an
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
There might still be credit card terminals using 300 bps Bell 103 (which has a short set-up time due to its lack of training sequences). 1200 bps V.23 and Bell 202 are still in use in radio telemetry applications.
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
Back in my school days, I found that TI's calculators had crap keyboards that inevitably failed at the worst moment. I decided to try an HP instead (HP-11C in my case), and I still have that calculator. It still works beautifully, but
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
The easter egg carried over to the PDP-11 as well. I remember it being present in RSTS/E 7.0's TECO back in my high school days, and I just fired up SIMH and found it's definitely there. On the other hand, I never really trie
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by flyinghamster 2y ago
I went through a similar thing with a sprained knee (due to pandemic-related inactivity and resulting obesity). I had squatted down to pick something up, and when I got back up my knee, dodgy for years, finally said FU. I was still able to

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